# COMAR Title 08 — Department of Natural Resources

## Subtitle 02 — Fisheries Service

### Chapter 01 — General

#### Regulation .01 Fishery Management Plans.

*COMAR 08.02.01.01*

A. The following Fishery Management Plans are adopted and incorporated by reference:

  (1) Chesapeake Bay Alosid Management Plan (July 1989), and Amendment I 1989 Chesapeake Bay Alosid Management Plan (June 1998);

  (2) Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Management Plan (July 1989); Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Management Plan (June 1997), Amendment I 1997 Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan (October 2003), and Amendment #2 1997 Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan May 31, 2012;

  (3) Maryland Chesapeake Bay Oyster Management Plan (May 2019) and Amendment 1 to the 2019 Maryland Chesapeake Bay Oyster Management Plan (December 2023);

  (4) Chesapeake Bay Striped Bass Management Plan (December 1989), and Amendment I 1998 Chesapeake Bay Striped Bass Fishery Management Plan (CB SBFMP) (1998);

  (5) Chesapeake Bay Bluefish Management Plan (December 1990), and Amendment I of the 1990 Chesapeake Bay Program Bluefish Fishery Management Plan (October 2003);

  (6) Chesapeake Bay Weakfish and Spotted Sea Trout Management Plan (December 1990), and 2003 Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Weakfish (Cynoscion regalis) Fishery Management Plan (FMP) (December 2003);

  (7) Chesapeake Bay Summer Flounder Management Plan (December 1991) and Amendment I Chesapeake Bay Summer Flounder Management Plan (1998);

  (8) Chesapeake Bay Atlantic Croaker and Spot Fishery Management Plan (December 1991);

  (9) Chesapeake Bay American Eel Fishery Management Plan (December 1991) and Amendment 1 to the 1991 Chesapeake Bay American Eel Fishery Management Plan;

  (10) Chesapeake Bay Black Drum Fishery Management Plan (September 1993);

  (11) Chesapeake Bay Red Drum Fishery Management Plan (September 1993);

  (12) Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast Horseshoe Crab Fishery Management Plan (1994);

  (13) Chesapeake and Atlantic Coast King and Spanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan (1994);

  (14) Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan (October 1996);

  (15) Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast Tautog Fishery Management Plan (December 1998);

  (16) Coastal Bays Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan (September 2001);

  (17) Coastal Bays Hard Clam Fishery Management Plan (February 2002);

  (18) Maryland Tidewater Yellow Perch Fishery Management Plan (November 2002) and Amendment 1 to the 2002 Maryland Tidewater Yellow Perch Fishery Management Plan (December 2017);

  (19) Fishery Management Plan for Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) in Maryland Tidewater (January 2014); and

  (20) Fishery Management Plan for Tidewater Catfish (December 2021).

B. Under Natural Resources Article, §4-215, Annotated Code of Maryland, and a fishery management plan adopted in §A or B of this regulation, the Department has authority to substitute a regulation necessary to implement a plan for an otherwise applicable provision of Natural Resources Article, Title 4, Annotated Code of Maryland. In this subtitle, an intent to substitute an implementing regulation for a statutory provision is indicated by the phrase, “Notwithstanding Natural Resources Article, §4- . . . ”.